Perfect ten minute read giving you a window into Christmas 1941 when Churchill joined Roosevelt in Washington to plan an Allied strategy. Not much is said about the strategy, rather it is about Christmas and the meaning of Christmas that these two leaders used to speak and comfort during the dar...
I usually read fiction but loved this book because it made history come alive as though I was reading a novel. The stories of American expatriates in Paris are numerous and I remember hearing bits and pieces. But this book weaves the stories of people together and covers a wide range of "study"...
In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence - when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed a...
The only thing I knew about Harry Truman before reading this book was a recollection of the famous picture of him holding up a newspaper that read "Dewey Defeats Truman." I am amazed at Truman's hard work, integrity, and love of people. He wasn't perfect, of course, but there is much in this bo...
Wheeeeeere's Johnny? Thanks to David McCullough's 2002 Pulitzer Prize winning biography Adams will no longer be overlooked as a lesser president of the United States.Although our currency fails to recognize him, that's never been much of a big deal to me, as my wallet generally fails to recogniz...
This time the caisson would be slightly larger and there were to be a number of important modifications. Roebling had decided to make the water shafts round instead of square, for example; he wanted the air locks positioned differently; and the entire interior would be lined with boiler plate, as...
Pitcairn Mr. Robert Pitcairn’s private car had been attached to eastbound passenger train Number 18 shortly before noon that morning and rolled out of Pittsburgh’s Union Station about an hour later. Mr. Pitcairn was on his way to Lilly to see how serious the storm damage was there, and to look th...
Good heavens what a sound! —London Public Advertiser HIS MAJESTY THE KING of England and the new American minister to the Court of St. James's were not without common interests and notable similarities. Like John Adams, King George III was devoted to farming. Seldom was His Majesty happier than w...